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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

hello saw your reply im kinda new to linux my self and i use Slackware what kind of card are your trying to use a lan pci nic if so you need to set the ip address in slackware its ifconfig etho (for your first card your second replace etho with eth1) so when you open a shel you should type somthing like this
ifconfig -a eth1 192.168.0.1 thats sets your ipaddress for you local network on your card then just type ifconfig to see if the ip was set now to route the traffic between the 2 networks you should then type in the shell (make sure ipv4 is set up in your kernel as weel)next what you need to do is set up you linux box to do is route the traffic between the 2 networks to enable ipv4_forward on a runnning system in the shell you need to type this command echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
to keep it up and ruuning after you shut down or send a HALT signel to the system you need to go into your /etc/rc.d/rcinet2. and change the line
IPV4_FORWARD=0 to IPV4_FORWARD=1 0 mean no routing 1 means yes to routing and hopefully that should do it now remember i use Slackware it might be different for you Distrabution of linux if this doesent work contact the people you got your distro from and also you8 should check your man pages that came with it that specificly deal with networking personaly i love this kinda stuff and im planing on going to college to get a degree in networking if you want let me know if this was helpfull and i hope it was asta

I am very new to linux myself.....however I have managed to set up Internet Connection sharing from my Linux box (which connects to the internet via 128k ISDN connection) to my Notebook running Windows XP. After reading LQ I managed to pick up quite a bit of info....however, searching in google I came across this site which tells u how exactly to set up IP Masquerade which is what u need.